ROAST GARLIC for your STOCKPILE

When you have an abundance of garlic, there are lots of ways to preserve it, including dehydrating, pickling, and roasting....I'm sure there are plenty of ways to preserve your garlic, and I would love for you to tell me. For now though this post is about roasting your garlic cloves.

I have run out of roasted garlic in the freezer, so this is why I have roasted some today.....The oven was on already for some 'Herb n Garlic bread rolls'...you can scroll down to see them........

I love having roasted garlic on hand in the freezer....I can pop some in a sauce...or gravy.....I even use it in baking sometimes....and it is good when you are desperate coughing with a really bad cold...and you need a good quick soup...Oh yeah, chicken soup...that gets a few dabs of roasted garlic too....Come to think of it...I use it alot....but I never have to put the oven on just for that purpose.....I would never dream of putting the oven on only to roast a few cloves of garlic.

Ready for roasting...but I normally peel them.......

After getting really sticky peeling the roasted cloves.
Never again!
.Now I know why I peel them before I roast them...lol

After removing them from the ice-cube tray.
stored in the freezer in a press-seal bag.

While preparing the veg for tea tonight, I decided to cook all of the sweet potato I had on hand...the excess potato will be stored in the freezer in 1 cup batches...This makes it very easy to defrost for baking scones and muffins....I lay them flat and they defrost within 10 minutes. I also do this with mashed banana and pumpkin too.

Ready for the freezer.

When I visited Sonia, she gave me half of a lovely little mini rockmelon...It was soooo sweet...I just had to save the seeds for next season....You can see here that the seeds have all seperated from the flesh (the flesh is floating with any bad seed) ....

Now they just have to dry, and I will put them away until planting time.....
Yummmm and many thanks Sonia.

Here are the Herb n Garlic bread rolls I made today....they are a bit crowded, but I only have two racks in my oven,...and one was taken up with a roasting Leg of Pork...($4.99 per kg at Aldis...huge leg of Pork for $19.67)

Herb n Garlic bread rolls.

I would love to know how you preserve your garlic...Please leave a comment, so I can get back to you.
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